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Shutter was set at 1 and f-stop was 5.3, ISO 50.
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Jean,
I hesitate to break in here when you're on a roll but I thought I'd say a word about your ISO setting.
It's true that a lower ISO will produce a denser image. But, in my experience, and for our purposes, I believe an ISO of 200 will produce a fine enough and dense enough image. I could make the same argument for 400, but, certainly 200.
And, this ISO 200 will bring that shutter speed up considerably. Using a shutter speed of 1 second will allow only the most stoic (or dead) subjects to remain still enough. I don't think the difference in quality would be measurably different between a 50 and 200 ISO, except possibly at a print size which is two feet tall.
A metered shutter speed of a 60th of a second produced with an ISO of 200 will be doubled to 125th of a second using ISO 400. This can make a big difference in your success.
My new camera does not even have a setting lower than 200. What I'm saying is that I think you could be helped considerably by increasing the shutter speed and the image would not suffer appreciably.